United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 47 · 1991
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Edwards (1991), United States v. Wise (1992)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Simmons v. United States · United States v. Cronic · Kirby v. Illinois · Moran v. Burbine
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The guidelines and accompanying policy statements, coupled with Rule 32[,] mandate an open, on-the-record, reason-supported determination of the principal components of a guidelines sentence, including the determination of the applicable guidelines range.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We will not presume that a probation officer will act improperly. Further, we rely upon the integrity of district court judges and trust their ability to disregard any attempt to impermissibly influence a sentencing decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not have an absolute right to confront witnesses whose information is made available to the [sentencing] court”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.